One new dataset from Serbia, RS16 (Wave X) has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is based on the 2016 wave of the Household Budget Survey carried out by Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. In addition to releasing this Wave X dataset, the entirety of the Serbian series (RS06, RS10 and […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/serbia-rs16-added-to-lis/
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One new dataset from Georgia, GE16 (Wave X) has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is based on the 2016 wave of the Integrated Household Survey (IHS) carried out by National Statistics Office of Georgia.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/georgia-ge16-added-to-lis/
The 2019 edition of the annual Research on Economic Inequality series has special interest in the question “Why inequality differs so much across countries?”
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/call-for-papers-why-inequality-differs-so-much-across-countries/
Two-day workshop organized by the Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality (IRSEI) at the University of Luxembourg (in partnership with LIS/LWS)
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/ecsr-thematic-workshop-wealth-inequality-and-mobility/
In almost every country, wealth is predominantly constituted by housing equity, but what are the possible risks and how does wealth accumulation vary across countries?
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/book-on-wealth-and-homeownership/
Special Issue Comparative wealth and income research edited by Daniele Checchi and Janet Gornick is now available online
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/jid-special-issue-from-the-2017-lislws-user-conference/
This database allows LIS users to retrieve very detailed and standardized occupation categories, following the international two-digit coding of the ISCO-88 standard
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-complementary-database-routine-task-intensity-and-offshorability-for-the-lis/
Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics and LIS President presented the 2018 LIS Summer Lecture:
Inequality and globalisation, a brief review of facts and arguments.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series/francois-bourguignon/
Twenty three new datasets from Chile, Germany, Hungary, Israel, and Poland have been added to the LIS database
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2018-summer-data-release/
The education variables (EDUC and EDUC_C) for the six datasets from CA75 to CA97 have been changed to be consistent across the entire Canadian LIS series. Persons with a post-secondary certificate or diploma, previously coded as indistinguishable, were recoded into category “high”.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/canada-revision-of-education-information-for-the-earlier-datasets/